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August 25, 2025 3:17 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When OpenAI launched GPT-5 about two weeks ago, CEO Sam Altman promised it would be the company’s “smartest, fastest, …

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Image: IDG If you’re looking for an affordable Windows machine under $500, a blazing fast gaming beast for those intense matches, or a portable 2-in-1 for school or work, you’ve got plenty of great choices right now. We’ve hunted deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and beyond—so you don’t have to. Want to see even more? …

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At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Beautiful high-refresh rate OLED display Good price for that OLED Solid performance per dollar Lots of ports Cons Doesn’t pull far ahead of RTX 5070-powered laptops NPU is too slow for Copilot+ PC AI features 12 GB VRAM is low for GPU-heavy AI models Bad speakers Our Verdict The …

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There’s a common misconception about PCIe 5.0 SSDs that since they’re the latest-generation SSD storage and boast faster speed and bandwidth compared to PCIe 4.0 SSD, anyone who gets one is going to experience a big uptick in PC performance. That’s certainly not the case as we’ve shown by analyzing things like gaming performance. But …

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As the world’s leading brand in photography accessories, Ulanzi has built its name on affordable, creator-friendly photography gear. It has unveiled its latest all-in-one control and connectivity station — the D200H Deck Dock — a device packed with a 7-in-1 docking station, 14 customizable LCD keys, and AI-powered automation, which greatly streamlines creative workflows for …

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This Media Buying Briefing covers the latest in agency news and media buying for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Monday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → John Connors, CEO and founder of Boathouse, has spent the last 25 years zagging while most independents zig. And for the most part, …

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As if anyone needed yet another sign that the creator economy has become a core part of any marketing strategy, meal kit delivery brand Blue Apron has taken its influencer marketing in-house.  The move is to move influencer marketing in-house to curb costs, improve go-to-market campaign speed and build closer relationships with more than 100 …

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By Allison Smith  •  August 25, 2025  • Ivy Liu This story was first published by Digiday sibling, Modern Retail Amazon is escalating efforts to keep artificial intelligence companies from scraping its e-commerce data, as the retail giant recently added six more AI-related crawlers to its publicly available robots.txt file. The change was first spotted …

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The creator economy is a minefield — from varying fees to trying to prove value to the C-suite — which is why marketers need to know how to operate professionally, in the same way they do for every other part of marketing. In this edition of our Confessions series, where we trade anonymity for candor, the …

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